Chapter 272 Crimson Mirror
The affectionate scene between the kitten and the big white cat did not last long.
They were about to enter the old building area, and they didn't know whether there would be wild dogs or strange faceless men appearing in the future. They had just driven away the wild dogs, so now they had to hurry.
This time, Xu Zhiyan, who didn’t want to experience the flying cat again, took the initiative to climb onto the back of the big white cat.
After making sure that the kitten was firmly held, the big white cat quickly jumped down from the tree and walked towards the dilapidated old building farther away.
A few minutes later, the two cats entered the old community.
Not long after entering, Xu Zhiyan discovered something was wrong.
The little kitten lay on the bumpy back of the white cat, with his little furry head turned backwards. His expression was very serious, but because he was a cat, he looked a little cute.
Looking at the old buildings behind him, Xu Zhiyan's thoughts raced.
He was sure that the white cat had led him past two old buildings, but when he turned around and looked back, he saw that there were many old buildings behind him, and the brand new building they had come from was so far away that it was almost invisible.
Not disappearing.
The only thing that changes is the distance.
It was as if he and the big white cat came down from the tree, took one step to cover a thousand meters, and instantly left the range of the new building.
“Meow!”
He rubbed his white fur and then called out.
The big white cat stopped, turned around, and walked back a few steps carrying the kitten.
An even more bizarre scene appeared.
The new community, which was already far away, became even farther away after the white cat changed direction.
New buildings are moving away and old buildings are rising up.
"Meow--"
Xu Zhiyan didn't explain much, just called out again.
The smooth white fur in front of me was still stained with blood. The big white cat seemed to be a mute cat. It could not meow, but just quietly carried out the orders of the little guy on its back.
Maybe it’s because the white cat is too obedient. Both those who love cats and those who don’t in the live broadcast room have mixed feelings.
[I can't believe this white cat is an ordinary cat. I think it must be an NPC.]
[…Aren’t you talking nonsense? This must be compensation for the NPC.]
[When Little Millionaire rubbed against the big white cat, I took 50 or 60 screenshots. It was so cute! So cat cafes should consider improving the intelligence of cats and stop letting them always look at me with their noses up.]
[What do these residential buildings mean? Why is there a transition between the old and the new? Damn, I'm so anxious. ]
[I'm so anxious. Xiao Baiwan used to explain the reason for his actions to his teammates who asked about it, but now his partner has changed to a dumb cat, so he simply doesn't say anything.]
[The old neighborhood is actually more popular than the new neighborhood, even though it is a faceless neighborhood. ]
[What I don’t understand is why all the dogs in the neighborhood look exactly the same. This must be a clue! ]
[This neighborhood is really old, these small advertisements are piled up layer by layer...]
There was layer upon layer of small advertising papers pasted on, but the top one was still bright.
Compared with the overall grayish-white buildings and green belts of uniform variety, these flashy advertisements are much more conspicuous.
When passing by an advertising board, Xu Zhiyan called out to the big white cat.
Standing on the cat's back, he carefully looked at the community bulletin board in front of him. It seemed that no one had cleaned it for a long time, so the content inside was unknown, but the weathered glass cabinet was covered with advertising pages.
"A new building?"
He looked at the top advertisement paper with some surprise.
Like other real estate promotions, this photo of the property was repeatedly retouched by the designer, making it look very high-end, and it looks like a high-end building that ordinary people cannot afford.
On the page, in addition to the greenery surrounding the treetops, the most eye-catching thing is the residential building in the center of the advertising page.
【Escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy a high-end life...】
[0 down payment, low-priced pre-sale housing...]
The clean white building, the design-filled exterior, the red-tiled roof… Isn’t this the new residential complex he just left? But looking at the slogan on the advertisement, it’s clearly a pre-sale property that hasn’t even started construction yet!
Xu Zhiyan looked at the promotional poster, then turned back to look at the new neighborhood that was almost invisible, with a serious expression on its cat face.
"How dare you brag about your high-end life."
Real estate is an old trick.
If there is a bus stop next to you, you can say that you have convenient transportation with connections in all directions; if there is a bank next to you, you can say that you are located in a business center; if there is a convenience store, you can say that a convenient life is within reach.
This place, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, is most likely located in a remote area.
Before he could continue reading other news on the billboard, he felt a strong vibration under his feet - the white cat moved.
It shook its body and shook the kittens off its back, then grabbed the skin from the scruff of their necks and ran away at an extremely fast speed.
Xu Zhiyan hasn't realized the problem yet.
He only felt that the world was spinning around him, and the scenery in his field of vision kept shifting, almost turning into an afterimage.
The big cat runs very fast.
Xu Zhiyan could hear the sound of wind whistling in his ears.
After another jolt, Xu Zhiyan was placed steadily in the middle of the tree branch.
“Woof woof——”
“Woof woof woof!”
“Woof…”
The sound of dogs barking appeared one after another.
Even more than last time.
More than thirty wild dogs appeared under the tree. Like the wild dogs that had escaped before, they had similar faces and body shapes, and looked more like clones than rabbits caught from a magic hat.
This time, Xu Zhiyan did not just tremble like before.
He is a human, not a real cat.
Kitten instincts will influence him, but they won't always control him.
He turned his head to look at the wild dog under the tree, the fur on his face concealing his inner uneasiness.
The dogs were not injured.
Not the group of dogs that were chased away by the big white cat before.
This realization made him acutely aware of the problems in his current situation.
If the dog that was just chased away brings a new dog to seek revenge, although it is troublesome, it is still logical.
As for the wild dogs that have appeared now, each one is in good shape, with minced meat in its open mouth. There are only two possible explanations: the first is that there are an infinite number of dogs in the community, and the second is that the injured dogs will recover quickly.
Neither of these two explanations is what Xu Zhiyan wants.
“Woof——”
Saliva kept flowing out of the dogs' mouths. These dogs seemed to be crazy, jumping up the trees with their limbs that were not capable of climbing trees.
Compared with the elegant big white cat sitting on the branch, the creature under the tree looked more and more like an insane monster.
Xu Zhiyan was a little worried.
Too many.
There were more than twice as many dogs as before, and he was worried that the big white cat couldn't handle it.
But looking around, the tree the white cat found was the thickest tree nearby. Although this was an old neighborhood, the planning at the time was definitely not very good. There were very few trees around, and each tree was far apart.
It’s too difficult. Although the white cat is agile and good at fighting, a cat facing so many dogs will definitely suffer more injuries.
But the big white cat didn't think he couldn't win.
It picked up the kitten that was stretching its neck to look around, and facing the tree trunk as before, it jumped onto the slender branch, carefully selected a fresh leaf, bit it off and used it to cover the kitten's head.
"Meow!"
Xu Zhiyan's face was covered with leaves. He shook his head, crawled out from under the leaves, and shouted at the big cat.
"I don't know if you can understand me, but there are too many wild dogs down there. I think we should take a long-term view." He was worried about the white cat and didn't care whether the other party could understand long sentences.
However, the white cat tilted its head, lowered its head and licked the kitten's head a few times, then picked up the leaf and put it on the kitten's head.
Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to say anything, it finished all this and rushed down from the tree trunk skillfully.
The battle has begun.
The white cat was like water dropped into a frying pan, and the dogs roared.
This time Xu Zhiyan did not close his eyes and tremble towards the tree trunk. He turned around, stuck his head out from under the broad leaves, and watched the big white cat flash past the pack of dogs.
The white cat was stronger than he thought, much stronger.
He saw with his own eyes that the white cat used its sharp claws to directly cut the throat of a wild dog. Blood instantly gushed out of the wound and stained its white fur.
But no matter how good it is at fighting, it still has a little difficulty facing such a dog.
It took twice as long as last time, but the big white cat finally drove away all the dogs surrounding the tree.
This time, when the dogs left with their tails between their legs, two wild dog carcasses were found under the tree.
A lot of the big white cat's fur was pulled out. The bleeding of its previously injured ear had just stopped, but now it was injured again. Almost half of its fur was dyed red.
The only thing that remains unchanged is the big white cat's eyes.
It was still as confused and lazy as when it first met Xu Zhiyan, but revealing peace.
Regardless of how high the tree was, Xu Zhiyan tried to climb down from the tree, but because he was not very skilled, he fell on his butt when he landed and rolled out twice.
Who can resist a kitten running towards them, meowing?
“Meow meow meow!”
Xu Zhiyan bumped into the big white cat's fur and his face was covered in blood.
He originally thought that the discomfort in his heart was due to his own weakness and incompetence after becoming a cat, but now watching the big white cat fighting among the dogs for him, he had to admit that his worry about the big cat now exceeded his hatred for his own powerlessness.
Xu Zhiyan was extremely confused.
From the contents displayed in the space inside this mirror, it can be seen that everything inside is most likely a false derivative.
At this moment, he actually began to worry. If he really broke out of this space, what would happen to the white cat?
Will it disappear? Or will it die?
“…That’s why I don’t like to owe favors to others.”
Mumbling to himself, he looked up into the white cat's eyes and saw that there was a bit more clarity in the red pupils.
As if possessed by some mysterious force, Xu Zhiyan buried the cat's face in its white fur and spoke in a muffled voice.
"It would be nice if you were it, too."
It would be nice if the white cat was also a clone of blood.
He didn't like the white cat disappearing, nor did he want it to die.
"I think if more dogs come next, we have to find a way to deal with it instead of letting you keep fighting."
After rubbing his hands, he sat on the ground and started barking at the big white cat.
However, the white cat perhaps didn't understand, or perhaps it understood but ignored it. It leaned its head over and licked all the blood off the kitten's face, then carried the kitten on its way again.
No matter how the kitten cried, it didn't put it down.
…
Blood pool on the eighth floor.
Ever since Blood released his clone into the mirror world yesterday, he has been maintaining the same posture, staring at the interaction between the two cats in the mirror.
In its meager and dry experience of communicating with humans, none of them had ever told it why humans had such complex emotions, to the point that... it made him jealous of his clone and at the same time very regretful.
"Why?"
Blood felt that he couldn't understand something.
At first, it just couldn't understand why its clone kept losing control. After losing control, it wished it could give the human a green light all the way. Even after its identity as a tour guide was discovered to be out of control, it would rather throw away its reason and turn itself into a muddle-headed low-level animal.
Now, as it watched, it seemed a little confused about Xu Zhiyan.
Judging from previous intelligence and vague news obtained earlier, this cunning human is not a good person.
He is greedy and obsessed with money.
In order to pass levels and get more points, he often shows a smooth and gentle side, but in fact he is very cunning and can do anything for money.
Almost every clone that lost control had been tricked by him.
Blood has considered using money to bribe this human being.
The other party has no heart anyway.
Since there is none, then the only thing it can get is □□, right?
And what does it see now?
It saw worry and confusion in this human's eyes...
Maybe Xu Zhiyan himself hasn't discovered it yet, but it's different, it also saw this person's refusal to take the task.
"This is in line with the indecisive nature of human nature."
For the sake of a cat, this greedy human actually began to think about how to complete the task without hurting the cat?
This is not right. Xu Zhiyan should be a hateful human being who is good at taking advantage of all resources...
With confused thoughts, Xueling continued to watch the live broadcast.
It avoids the youth's previous sentence.
It didn't want to delve into it, it didn't want to know why the other party would hope that... the cat was it.
…
Different from the tangled blood body.
The big white cat is just an animal, it doesn't have that many worries.
The big white cat holding the kitten in its mouth walked on the side of the road with its head held high, as if it was holding the most precious treasure in the world.
Soon, Xu Zhiyan had no time to discuss with the big white cat what to do if another wild dog came.
They didn't encounter any faceless men along the way.
No matter how you look at it, those small faceless men in blue clothes are always very far away, as if they will never intersect.
He also saw a lot of advertisements in the old neighborhood.
[Professional sewer casting, phone number: 12...]
[Repairing leaking roof]
[Recycling old color TVs, old furniture, and old washing machines...]
Like every mature old community.
Almost every corner here is filled with various kinds of information.
But it was strange that the buildings in the old community were lifeless. Although there were a lot of debris and clothes hanging in the windows of every household, no one was there.
Xu Zhiyan also found a science fiction magazine in a scrap cart, but the magazine didn't seem to have good sales. When he opened the cover, there was an advertisement for anti-virus software, the same one he had seen on Wumian's computer before.
After walking for a while, the big white cat carried the kitten up the tree again.
They encountered a third round of wild dog attack.
As predicted, there were more wild dogs this time.
In the third round of fighting, the big white cat was injured more seriously than before. Its left paw was bitten by a sneak attacking wild dog.
Xu Zhiyan was a little anxious.
He stopped staring at the advertisements on the street and tried to find a medical clinic in the community to see if he could go in and get some disinfectants or something.
However, the opposite happened.
As if knowing that the big white cat was injured, the wild dogs launched a fourth round of attacks.
Not only Xu Zhiyan couldn't stand it, but the audience in the live broadcast room also broke down.
[…Help, why!! Why are you making things so difficult for these two little kittens? Wuwuwuwu.]
[This big white cat is so nice, his boyfriend power is MAX! ]
[+1 to the above, I want to get married to this cat! ]
[Hey, I don’t understand, since the system has given compensation to the NPC, why should the compensation NPC have to suffer all this? ]
[Shit, did the big cat unplug the system server? Why does it feel like revenge? Who the hell would embarrass a little kitty?]
[Xiao Baiwan, wow, wow, wow, I don’t understand why Xiao Baiwan can still hold on, I can’t hold on any longer! ]
[Because it's useless to hold it in! This shabby neighborhood doesn't even have a small clinic, and it seems there's no community hospital either. Damn it! There's no way to treat a kitten that's injured. ]
[Finally made it through the fourth round...]
[It’s a bit tragic. There are too many wild dogs, and the number doubles every time.]
[U1S1 The big white cat fought nearly 200 wild dogs in the fourth round, which was already outrageous. I saw that it had left afterimages. If there were more, it would definitely not be able to defeat them. I wonder if its left paw was broken.]
[Mainly, the status of the monsters is increasing and decreasing, and the wild dogs are getting stronger and stronger. ]
It’s similar to the judgment of the audience in the live broadcast room.
After the fourth round of wild dog attacks, the big white cat's left claw was completely broken and it could not touch the ground. It could only walk on three legs, which greatly affected its speed.
Xu Zhiyan was anxious, but there was nothing he could do except be anxious.
When the ground began to vibrate and more wild dogs came rushing over, Xu Zhiyan really wanted to call up the system panel to ask, is this really reasonable?
The entire area under the tree was occupied by wild dogs.
Xu Zhiyan sat on a tree branch and looked out. Almost the entire community was occupied by stray dogs, as if the people living in this community were not people but stray dogs.
He himself looked at the dogs, and his feeling went from fear at first to calmness and then to numbness.
This time, without waiting for the big white cat to get down from the tree, the little kitten lay on the big white cat's intact right paw to prevent it from getting down.
"I think we should take a long-term view."
Xu Zhiyan was afraid that the big white cat would go down and fight again.
The opponent's state was exhausted by the rounds of wild dog attacks. He was sure that if he came down from the tree again this time, the big white cat would not be able to come back alive.
The big white cat lowered its head and licked the kitten.
It knew that it was at the end of its strength and would die if it continued.
Looking around, the white cat saw wild dogs running towards it from farther away, but its expression was still as indifferent as before, as if it was not the one with a broken front paw.
But this time, as if it understood Xu Zhiyan's concerns, it did not rashly climb down the tree.
As time went by, the two cats walked and stopped, and now it was already evening, and lights were turned on in the empty rooms of the residential buildings beside the road.
Xu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief.
There was still noisy and chaotic barking of dogs all around.
But the big white cat and its kittens found a sturdy branch, and after grooming their fur, they lay down to rest, pretending not to hear.
The years are peaceful in the tree.
Demons were dancing wildly under the tree.
When the moon was rising high in the sky, Xu Zhiyan looked at the wild dogs coming from a distance, and his heart sank to the bottom of the valley.
There were no buildings to jump off of, no props, no good way to drive away the dogs, and unless his big white cat could fly like Xiaoyi, they would never be able to leave here.
【11:43:10】
There are less than twelve hours left in the countdown.
Even though he had guessed the location of the mirror, he couldn't escape from the pack of wild dogs.
At this moment, the big cat, which had been resting with its eyes closed nearby, woke up.
It ignored the stray dog on the ground. After waking up, it looked at its kitten with eyes full of tenderness, as if it could never look enough.
Just as Xu Zhiyan was about to scream, he was held down by the big cat's outstretched right paw.
The soft pads of the retracted nails pressed against the kitten's face, making it hard to tell who was getting the upper hand.
The big cat withdrew its hand, stood up, and changed direction with the kitten in its mouth.
Feeling the change in his vision, Xu Zhiyan suppressed his uneasiness and looked into the distance. It was just an ordinary residential building...
When he wanted to turn his head, the big cat picked him up and brought him back to sit.
After several exchanges, Xu Zhiyan understood what the other party meant.
"You mean the place I want to go is over there?"
He tried to speak
The white cat looked clear-eyed and nodded.
After making sure Xu Zhiyan knew its intention, it looked up and glanced at the wild dog that had arrived a few minutes ago. Finding that no new dogs were coming, it carried the kitten to a slightly lower branch and found a leaf to cover the kitten's head.
Xu Zhiyan was a little confused.
At this moment, the white cat, who had done everything, moved.
It suddenly jumped down from the tree, stepped on the wild dog's back, and ran in the opposite direction of its target.
The broken front paw seemed to have no sense of pain. It was like a thunderclap. Countless wild dogs became agitated, trampling on their companions and chasing in the direction of the white cat.
In less than two minutes, there was no dog left under the tree where Xu Zhiyan was.
The kitten looked from under the leaves in the direction the dogs left.
After just looking for a few seconds, it turned back, quickly climbed down the tree, and ran towards its target.
…
Xu Zhiyan never knew that a sick little kitten could run so fast.
He has been taken care of by the big white cat since he left the cat room. At this time, the evening breeze blew across his cheeks, and he heard his own footsteps in his right ear. His eyesight was already poor, so it was even more difficult for him to run at night.
But he didn't dare to stop, and he couldn't stop.
This was the time the big white cat bought him.
If he really just stood there stupidly and wasted his time, he would be letting the other person down.
Suppressing the complicated emotions in his heart, Xu Zhiyan only hoped that he could run faster and get to the place where the mirror of this world was hidden.
After running for an unknown amount of time, he finally arrived at an old building with countless pet advertisements printed on it.
【Pet Love Cattery welcomes your purchase. 】
【Here, you can find any cat you want...】
A slogan exactly the same as the one on the cat bag appeared before his eyes. Xu Zhiyan stopped and before he even had time to catch his breath, he could not wait to find the floor where the cat house was located.
This is where it all began.
This is the world of the Abyssinian cat.
If he doesn't come, the kitten will just lie with other sick cats and will not be picked up or sent to the breeder's home.
The kitten's world is small.
It is so small that there is only the narrow cat house in front of it and the various promotional advertisements it saw in the community before it died. Perhaps the house in the real estate promotional pictures and the room piled with various cat toys are the paradise in its cognition.
It has no idea how big the world is.
It is an unsuccessful commodity.
As Xu Zhiyan walked into the dark corridor, he couldn't help but think of his white cat.
The journey was smooth, not because of good luck, but because while the white cat was dozing, it had been observing the surroundings to see if there were any wild dogs coming. It waited for so long not because it wanted to rest.
It wanted to wait until all the wild dogs gathered together and then lead them all away.
It wanted to clear away all the thorny obstacles on the road for its kitten.
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